Angharad Start > Chambers of Ewan McQuater KC and David Quest KC > London, England > Barrister Profile
3 Verulam Buildings Offices
3 Verulam Buildings
GRAY'S INN
LONDON
WC1R 5NT
England
Angharad Start

Position
Angharad is a commercial barrister specialising in general commercial litigation, corporate and personal insolvency, company law (incl. disqualification), banking and financial services, art and cultural property law, breach of confidence, wide-ranging professional indemnity work, insolvency and arbitration. Having returned to practice after a career break, Angharad has been ranked as a Leading Junior in her specialist fields of Media and Art Law, Art and Cultural Property and Insolvency and in the High Net Worth and Global guides.
Career
Called 1988; previously working for merchant bank and in the Far East.
Memberships
ALA, IAL, COMBAR; Chancery Bar Association; Insolvency Lawyers Association; Professional Negligence Bar Association; International Law Association, Art Lawyers Association, PAIAM, Association of Women in the Arts.
Education
Education: St Paul’s Girls School; University of Durham LLB (Hons).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Art and cultural property
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Angharad Start – 3 Verulam Buildings ‘Angharad is incredibly enthusiastic and has a comprehensive understanding of the art market. She is undoubtedly a creative, out of the box thinker.’
‘One of the major heavyweight sets with a good team of silks and juniors doing art and cultural property’, 3 Verulam Buildings regularly handles complex matters of attribution and dating works of art, issues of title, and disputes as to the rights of ownership. Angharad Start is acting for the claimant in Dmitry Rybolovlev v Sothebys, with the case known as The Bouvier Affair, concerning 37 masterpieces and implicating the auction house in one of the largest art frauds in history. In White v Joiner, Cleon Catsambis continues to act for the claimant in a matter concerning the delivery up of £10m worth of Star Wars memorabilia and film props, with some of the assets currently being on public display. Sophia Dzwig continues to build her reputation as a ‘very capable barrister with a deep interest in and promising future in art and cultural property’.
London Bar > Insolvency
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Angharad Start – 3 Verulam Buildings ‘Angharad is a very persuasive advocate, has a pleasant and attractive speaking voice and is able to inject humour into her oral submissions at the appropriate time which always goes down with Judges who then warm to her and her case.’
With a ‘strong bench in insolvency’ 3 Verulam Buildings‘ members cover a broad range of cross-border and domestic insolvency cases for a variety of clients, including insolvency practitioners, liquidators and administrators. Many of the set’s practitioners have cross-over experience, with insolvency cases having elements from banking and finance, financial services, dispute resolution and fraud. Ewan McQuater, alongside James McWilliams, Philip Hinks and William Day, acted for the liquidators of Grant Thornton in Harrington & Charles Trading Co and Others v Jatin Mehta and others, who alleged that the family and their associates had carried out a fraud by obtaining gold bullion from Indian banks. Angharad Start has acted on a variety of domestic and cross-border cases, while Jamie Riley KC is a key silk from the set.